Guam Highway 1, better known as Marine Corps Drive, provides access to Piti to the west and Maina to the east.

The Spanish who colonized Guam in the late seventeenth century converted the village into an agricultural settlement, primarily farming taro, rice, and sugar cane.

[2] Asan lay along the only real road on Guam, which connected the port at Piti to the capital of Hagåtña.

[2] In 1917, the prison camp was used again to temporarily house sailors from the SMS Cormoran, the first German prisoners-of-war taken by the United States in World War I.

In 1944, the U.S. military chose the Asan Invasion Beach as the northern attack beginning the Battle of Guam.

The residents of Asan who returned to rebuild their homes were moved further away from the coast, creeping up to the bottom of the highlands, renamed Nimitz Hill.

From 1948 to 1967, the area around Asan Point became "Civil Service Camp," a small military facility with housing and amenities such as an outdoor theater, tennis courts, and a fire station.